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Yea... that's pretty much the way it goes for anybody who's functionally sane. My advice would be... if you're young, you gotta go for it now. Don't say that's how you want to live your whole life, because everybody I ever knew who actually did it, never talked about it. They just did it and went away...

So go for it NOW. Because you can't help aging... or needing money... and you can't help who you fall in love with. Those things just HAPPEN to you. And when they do, you'll look back... and here's the "theater of the absurd" part of it... you STILL WANT TO DO IT! That never goes away. Only now, you're too old and committed, and if you have any integrity at all, you don't just up and bail on people who you committed to and need you for selfish reasons like, "I just want an adventure."

Do it NOW. Pack your boards, (you do have boards, right?) and all the cash you got, and don't freak'n snapchat every second of it like anybody else cares. You're doing this for YOU, aren't you? Or are you? Take a few pics for yourself, if you feel you have to. And don't act like it's your life's work, because it aint. 'Cause like I said, people who do, don't talk about it.

You talking to me, ese, on that last paragraph or people in general? I will assume it was directed at me because I'm egocentric and everything's aboot me. Someone told me that on here once, and I've been told on SI that I'm mentally insane(like clinically) five times. Yeah, I have a few boards. Nahh, I never been in the ocean before, and I have this strange, kinky obsession for surf predictin' website message boards. I studied aboot the lifestyle for three years before coming on here. And there was more to this than just going surfing.

I didn't like that paragraph. But I will fight the urge to throw out insults and threats.

People who do, most certainly talk aboot it. It happens all the time. Rocky Dennis talked aboot it, and he would have gone if he didn't happen to die. Chavez, and bikers across the land, mourned that dude's death. All Rocky's mom cared aboot was getting loaded and laid. How would you know if someone "left?" They might be standing on the corner in Jersey City all these years......or in Northern State for sex crimes.

Ahh, but I am not functionally sane. I don't like being human for one thing. It doesn't seem to bother anybody else, but it bothers me. People, ah, how they are so willing to accept things. I hate bodily functions. I cry everytime I have to use the bathroom. It's so stupid. Really, think aboot how stupid it is. Yeah, yeah I know it's necessary and all, I don't need biology lessons, but I think it's disgusting.

Every morning, around the world, people wake and expell gas, urinate, defecate, burp, sneeze, cough, spit, menstrate, tug their junk, and all sorts of sh!t. Then they zip around in their motorized contraptions deluded into thinking what they are doing is important, and, hence, they are important. Really, sit in a parking lot of a strip mall, located by a busy roadway, sometime, and just watch the madness. Everyone speeding around like they have something important to do. 7 billion people running around in the pursuit of the superficial........farting and crapping along the way.

All people do is work, buy sh!t, and forge these personal relationships that, in theory, are supposed to make a person feel important and worthy. Then, humans being humans, problems arise in these earthly pursuits, and then the person yaps incessantly on their cell phones to anyone that will listen.

" Now I roll in comfort" "Yeah, that how it goes for anybody....who's sane" What is comfort? Comfort is a friggin preconceived notion embedded in your brain. It's all in your perception. Listen, you f'ing crackers, I'm not there yet, but I'm headed there. I had a hell of an obstacle to jump quitting Kasser's Vodka and cutting down my poppy plantation in my backyard. But along this "journey," I have been deprogamming my mind not to WANT things, for wants and desires are responsible for most of y'alls problems. Ax a Chinese guy, he'll tell you the same.

I am making progress too. I can sit in a house and read for days at a time and it doesn't phase me. I don't end up disappointed at the end of the day because I didn't expect anything during it. I roll with the flow. Sure, I get bummed when my spot's sandbar craps out like it did after last weeks Nor'easter, but that's beyond my control.

Well then. I could not top that if I tried nor would I wish to. Sage brah, get it all out braddah.

This thread has fornicated with itself then puked on its mutated self as if to pre-digest it in an auto-cannibalistic way. Family is the schitt. So is autonomy and exercise of free will. Both are divine and the privilege of the blessed. Errbuddy's wishing their own wishes upon much different others around here and that makes about as much sense as bish slapping an armless dummy. If you guys are committing to your hierarchy of values through your life priorities, then you're doing the right thing and will be rewarded. PB&J is correct that the world is rushing through its existence, but those Mainers take their damn time.

Back to sage brah's original thread topic...just got home from 30-hour, 438-mile miniature pilgrimage of my own and it was the balls. Need some rest now but the last two days have been fulfilling in most all ways. Surfing is a great vehicle for our growth, understanding, and peace. So is a Ford pickup.

You talking to me, ese, on that last paragraph or people in general?...

I didn't like that paragraph. But I will fight the urge to throw out insults and threats.

No, brother... Maybe the words confused the message...

The message was GO FOR IT! Don't talk about it, because it only wastes time, and it's time itself that steals your youth and brings the future to the present. Every day that goes by brings with it the chance that something will happen... you might be offered that job.... might meet your soul mate.... might even die. All those "mights" can change your plans, and rob you of that opportunity to do what you've always wanted to do. And the harsh and tragic truth is that you'll never stop wanting to do, whatever it is, that you've always wanted to do. It's just that all of a sudden, you realize you CAN'T.

I just spent the past couple hours pushing my 10-year-old daughter into mushy thigh high dribblers on an old beat up log. She's totally hooked... all she wants to do is surf and fish... every day. I see it.... it's in her. Just like it's in all of us, and it never goes away. Samsara... around and around. The bliss of the little things that bring us joy, interwoven with the tortures of being human in an imperfect world.

The message was GO FOR IT! Don't talk about it, because it only wastes time, and it's time itself that steals your youth and brings the future to the present. Every day that goes by brings with it the chance that something will happen... you might be offered that job.... might meet your soul mate.... might even die. All those "mights" can change your plans, and rob you of that opportunity to do what you've always wanted to do. And the harsh and tragic truth is that you'll never stop wanting to do, whatever it is, that you've always wanted to do. It's just that all of a sudden, you realize you CAN'T.

I just spent the past couple hours pushing my 10-year-old daughter into mushy thigh high dribblers on an old beat up log. She's totally hooked... all she wants to do is surf and fish... every day. I see it.... it's in her. Just like it's in all of us, and it never goes away. Samsara... around and around. The bliss of the little things that bring us joy, interwoven with the tortures of being human in an imperfect world.

Pack your gear and go...

Nahhh, you were attacking me and I will not sit here as a good man of this New Jersey and this planet and stand by and take that. No sir ree Bob.

I form a militia two weeks ago and we will not tolerate any Tomfoolerey nor Mikefoolery........We have had enough and we are not going to take it. We play Twisted Sister during our meetings

Sorry LBCrew, I was just messing with you and trying get a rise. Someone told me I do that just the other week. Man, people are always telling me stuff aboot myself......like I don't know. I examine myself frequently......with a mirror

Anyways, you were the last message there and I used you as a gateway into a rant aboot bodily functions. Sorry to make you feel cheap and used. You deserve better than that.

"I think I am not of this planet" (Robin Ophellia Quivers)

LBCrew, my sandbars are gone. If they stay like this, I might have to........GULP..........go to Ocean City. LBCrew, I do not want to go to Ocean City......Dude, there's people, like, everywhere there. They never go away..........

Hey, make sure you keep your daughter away from Archy as she ages. No, not relationship-wise for God's sakes, but that dude scares me.

Great post PB&J. I feel like if I ever have a daughter, she may be better off by being raised in LBCrew's household than by me. LBCrew, stay close by brah. I might need you to do me that solid at some point. I've seen several friends have girls and just can't envision what that moment must be like for a dude. You're a saint.

The scary thing, Spicoli, is that no matter how decent and upstanding LBCrew is, and no matter how well he raises his daughter, there is still a 50% chance the daughter will have large hair, snap gum and say, " Hey yo Vinny whatchu guys doin' down dere." And she may end up driving an IROC-Z in Seaside Heights with large Puerto Rican earings dangling from her ears.

New Jersey and YOU - Perfect Together

It's in our blood. It's in our DNA..................we're here to stay........Cause we're(Everybody!!) stronger than the storm...........

AND LBCrew hang in there, man. The work you do has purpose and meaning..........for the rich or the poor........they all can use an educator such as yourself.

And what? You got a place for me where I can achieve my dream of teaching in a bad neighborhood and finally winning the kids over..........then one of my students, my biggest challlenge, gets wacked-off after I changed his life.
" What do I have to do to reach dese kids........"

I've been wanting to appear in a movie based on just the exact scenario.

The scary thing, Spicoli, is that no matter how decent and upstanding LBCrew is, and no matter how well he raises his daughter, there is still a 50% chance the daughter will have large hair, snap gum and say, " Hey yo Vinny whatchu guys doin' down dere." And she may end up driving an IROC-Z in Seaside Heights with large Puerto Rican earings dangling from her ears.

New Jersey and YOU - Perfect Together

It's in our blood. It's in our DNA..................we're here to stay........Cause we're(Everybody!!) stronger than the storm...........

AND LBCrew hang in there, man. The work you do has purpose and meaning..........for the rich or the poor........they all can use an educator such as yourself.

And what? You got a place for me where I can achieve my dream of teaching in a bad neighborhood and finally winning the kids over..........then one of my students, my biggest challlenge, gets wacked-off after I changed his life.
" What do I have to do to reach dese kids........"

I've been wanting to appear in a movie based on just the exact scenario.

Who wacks him off? Most teenage boys would enjoy this experience. Did you mean he gets wacked? or did you mean he gets offed? Words are powerful, Mr Bear...